2 Chronicles 36:1-7 ▼

1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.

2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3 The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

4 The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz's brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Necho seized his brother Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.

5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the LORD's temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.